Enough of a fentanyl analogue to kill most people on the North Shore was found inside a Lynn Valley house decorated for Hallowe’en.
North Vancouver RCMP say three people are under investigation after Emergency Response Team members and officers with a search warrant descended Nov. 1 on the 63-year-old house at 982 Lynn Valley Road.
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On Dec. 12, they said they found five guns (three handguns, a rifle and a sawed-off shotgun), 4 kilograms of caffeine, 3.6 kg of synthetic cannabinoid, 1 kg of heroin, 295 grams of furanylfentanyl, 205 g of methamphetamine and 3 g of cocaine.
Police say they arrested five suspects and found two children inside the $1.52 million-assessed house, which is located next door to the Sunrise of Lynn Valley seniors centre and Waldorf-Steiner Early Childhood Centre, across from the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
The land title database shows it was registered in September 2022 to “Lawrence Dip Narayan, retired.”
North Vancouver RCMP say a report to federal prosecutors is underway to recommend charges against three suspects.
The B.C. government says 1,925 people have died from toxic drugs in the first 10 months of 2024. More than 15,000 people have died since the public health emergency was declared in 2016.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says as little as two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal. One kilogram of fentanyl can kill 500,000 people.
Coincidentally, on Hallowe’en, the RCMP announced they busted the largest fentanyl and methamphetamine superlab in Canada on Oct. 25 in Falkland, B.C.
Mexican cartels using chemicals from China have been identified as the main culprits of opioid supply to gangs and their distributors on the West Coast.
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